Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-14
GENERAL NEWS.

Secretary Fairchild is a consistent
member of the Episcopal church.
rosebush from Henry Clay's old
home has been trans planted to Thurlow
Weeds grave.
Mr.. Blaine and Senator Hale will prob
ably sail on the same steamer when they
go to Europe.
Governor Church, of Dakota, appointed
his ''hired man" veterinary surgeon of
the territory.
see 103 men raised to the Episcopacy
since his own conservation in 1871.
There are 1O1 persons who bear the
name of Smith in Bourbon county, Ken
tuakey.
Miss Elizabeth Cary died at Concord,
n. H., a few days ago, at the age of 1O1
years.
Judge Albion Tourgee, author of "a
FOOLS Errand," thinks of returning to
North Carolina to live.
President Cleveland is said to be saw,
ing three-ffth of his salary. That is
not bad beginning for newly-married
man.
John Habberton, the father of "Helen 5
Babies" is exchange editor of the New
York Herald. The babies are still doing
we'll.
The distressing drouth in portions of
Texas continues. The people of the
farming districts are abandoning their
homes.
AS the tenants on the Irish estate of
Lord Lansdowne refuse to compromise,
the eviction OF all in arrears will be com
menced April 20.
At conference of Scotch millers at
Glasgow resolutions were adopted de-
handing that duty be placed on foreign
| flour.
has become editor of the new weekley
just established in New York by Dewitt
j. Seligmam.
Ex-Secretary 'Dick" Thompson, of In
diana, still holds on to mis- $4,000 end
of the Panama Canal, in spite of all the
efforts of the French to dislodge him.
Miss Sophie Markoe, it is agreed, is
handsome blonde, but it is not true, all
the same, that she is going to marry Sec
rotary Bayard.
An amateur dramatic company at Co
hoes, N. z, is being boycotted by the
Knights of Labor because young non
union lady employed in one of the mills
at that place is a member of the associa-
ton.
Smelling works to cost $4,000 are to
be erected al Tacoma, Washington Terri
tory. They will be the only institutions
of the kind upon the Pacific coast outside
of San Francisco.
The number OF weekly and daily news
papers in the United States amounts in
round numbers to IL 500 exclusive OF a
vast number of monthly and quarterly
periodicals.
The most popular MIN In Berlin, Ger
many, is one who jumps from one horse
to another as they go at full speed in OPP
pOsite directions in one of the royal cir
Gus rings.
Natural gas has been found in we'll in
one of the hills south of West Covington.
KY, at depth of 360'feet- It escapes at
the rate of 10000 cubic feet day. Other
wells are to be bored in the vicinity.
Mrs. Bishop FL. Warren, worth $10,00O,-
900, Is the richest woman In Colorado,
and made her money by cattle raising
That is the kind of a women to get for a
wife.
Ex-Governor Curtin, of Penns ylvania,
looks taller and leaner as the years pass
by, but he still has vigorous flow of Ian
guage, and talks fuently on public mat
tiers. He is 70 years Of age, but has the
activity of man of SO!
Henry George recently leetured at
western college. The agreement was to
pay him 5000, and although the receipts
were only $50, he extorted the full 5000
from the college boys, bsr. George is a
very thrifty sort of pftiaanthropist.
President McCosh declares that since
he abolished secret societies at Prince
ton there has been less, drinking, and less
opposition to the faculty
Arkons co. butchers, who are boycott
ing Armour 81 Co.'s meats, are trying to
secure the passage of a city ordinance
requiring that all meat sold in Akron to
be inspected on the hoef.
IT, is said that seventeen words in the
Interstate commerce act will cost the
Erie railway alone something approach
ing $4,000. Here are the words: "Such
schedules shall be plainly printed in large
type of at least the size of ordinary pica.'
In order to comply with this provision
pioa type has been bought by the ton,
and a large force Of men is kept at work
night and day turning out the huge job.
Buffalo is taking energetic measures to
get fire proof hotel, so that transient
visitors to that town may not be obliged
to choose between being roasted to death
and executing faets of ground and lofty
tumbling ia inadequate apparel. The
library association has voted to build a
model hotel at AN expense of about ST.
100000, providing the citizens take up
Sia per cent. loan On the property to the
amount of $4,000.
ABOUT two months ago Henry Re1sen
was taken to the hospital at st. Cloud,
Mimi, for treatment of diseased bones
in his legs. DR.. Ramsey removed from
each shin-bo2e pieces four or five inches
long and nearly an inch thick. Soon
after the operation the removed parts of
bone were replaced by shin-boD les from
Large dog, which was killed for this
purpose. The bones began to grow to-
gether, and ROW Reusen is able to walk
about.
John W. Bookwalter, the millionaire
democratic politician of Ohio, is reported